After serving two dozen years in the U.S. Senate, Mike Enzi delivered his farewell speech Wednesday. Enzi called it “an honor of a lifetime” to serve the people of Wyoming as a senator for the past 24 years.
Enzi said, “I really enjoyed being a senator not for the title, not for the recognition and certainly not for the publicity. I loved solving problems for folks in Wyoming and America. I like working on legislation.”
Enzi said he did not set out to go into politics but did so at the urging of Senator Alan Simpson. He ran for Mayor of Gillette and won. He went on to serve as a state representative, state senator, and finally US Senator. Enzi told the Senate that it had become a very different place than it had been when he arrived in 1997. He told his fellow Senators that as the country moves forward, it has no shortage of problems that need to be addressed. Some, he said are out of our control, but many, he told the Senators, “are of our own making.” To tackle the challenges, he said, would require finding common areas of agreement and work on the problems together.
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